Richardson Beach, Coastal park in Hilo, Hawaii, US.

Richardson Beach is a coastal park in Hilo featuring black volcanic sand mixed with green olivine crystals that line the protected shore near downtown. The park provides showers, restrooms, picnic tables, and parking for visitors.

The beach was named after George Richardson, the former Chief Detective of Hawaii County, who received the land from the Malo family. He built his residence there, giving the area its present-day name.

The name comes from Elsa and George Richardson, whose 1920s house still stands and now operates as the Richardson Ocean Center. George Richardson, a part-Hawaiian from Kohala and former Chief Detective of Hawaii County, received the land from the Malo family after ferrying typhoid-stricken family members to the Hilo hospital in his boat. The house, recorded in the Historic American Buildings Survey, has twelve lava rock columns and large front and back doors that let winter surf and tsunami wash through instead of carrying it away.

The park sits at the end of Kalanianaʻole Avenue, where Leleiwi Street leads on to the undeveloped coastal access at Lehia Park. The house on the grounds now operates as the Richardson Ocean Center. The swimming cove is sheltered by sea walls, and anchialine pools and fishponds lie within the coconut grove.

The lava-rock house at the park, built in the early 1920s, has front and back doors aligned to let winter surf and tsunami waves pass straight through; David Malo suggested this layout, and the house has survived several tidal waves intact. Its twelve lava rock columns are sometimes called the residence's protectors.